nostr:npub1amazsapuj5wrd9n34tra4t6nzj6fvkq04ptmstudq5ukfxrwmkus5awevr Thanks. The Trumper surgeon says live with it, but I fear that for him the cruelty may be the point :)

I’m hoping some kind of partial replacement is doable without too much disruption. I’m tired of the random failures. I’ve dropped to the street a couple of times when it failed without warning. If I’m going to run from the fascists one of these days, I’m going to need both knees in tip top condition.

nostr:npub1zwe27smjj3qypwv8hp6h6cc095wnga2r0jwdjcl5f4qnzz3vekcs54n55p that’s pretty reductionist. The fear of nuclear war tends to transcend pedestrian

concerns about military dominance with most people I know. And Republicans have a long history of putting it above all else, however insincerely and manipulated. If some small measure of consensus cannot be reached about that, it will probably never be reached about anything ever again.

Any “news” organization that doesn’t run this story should be shut down or burned to the ground. I am so sick of a multi trillion dollar “news” industry that never publishes much news. I’m even sicker of the American Left just treating the media as an minor annoyance, rather a major reason fascism is a ascendant around the world.

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https://mastodon.social/@Green_Footballs/111184537586704005

This an example of why I just love the fediverse. I ask questions and get answers. I am still waiting for answers to questions asked on Xitter a decade ago. As for Bluesky, nothing. Even low hanging political questions get ignored routinely. It has all the community feel of a morgue’s waiting room.

nostr:npub10yn05mkjqczf5403zlygl6mjmhl2ktlmdx48735f9wf299p5pmxq34x2vu as much as I love him, and it pains me to say it, that kind of confrontational nature has never been in the Obama’s DNA. They would play an important supporting role for someone else, but they’d never be that someone else.

This football game has more flags than the United Nations.

Funded by billionaires, the American right has a massive agitprop network that converts countless molehill stories into mountains in a matter of hours for purely partisan purposes. The Left can’t make a genuine mountain like this speech trend for a full day.

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https://mastodon.social/@shoq/111166600400704051

To see how this works, look no further than the “Joe Biden is too old” narrative.

This particular mind-virus was concocted by right-wing media — Fox, Breitbart, Newsmax, the usual suspects — who have long been desperate to slime Joe Biden with anything they can make stick.

To them, Biden is infuriatingly bland. Nothing about him offers the slightest whiff of scandal or bad faith. With so little to work with, they make stuff up — Hunter’s laptop, House investigations, immigrant …

Raise Your Hand if You’re Fed Up with Mainstream News • by nostr:npub1jzshyaphhsy7qjnxzyhudzn8tfl03eapmjac5d56ape3dgmpl0hqhhjpwv

http://www.leftjabs.com/2023/09/raise-your-hand-if-youre-fed-up-with.html

Just got the pathology report from my hernia. The trapped fatty tissue was way bigger (2.5” long) than the surgeon had me believe. But of course, I don’t really know if that’s all that big for these kinds of hernias. But it sounds big. And it sure felt bigly before it was resected

I’m old enough to remember when most of my social media posts were arguments with someone. Often someone’s that weren’t very good at arguing, but very good at being gratuitously nasty about it.

If I’ve learned anything at all, it’s that quorums are much more informative than quarrels.

With the perilous threat of encroaching fascism that we face, anyone dumb enough to waste a crucial vote on Cornel West or RFK Jr needs to step off, step out, and get the fuck out of my social media feeds. Stat.

This Hulu show, “Accused” is really good. But it’s really weird seeing 10 “stories” about law and justice that were clearly written and produced with a progressive worldview, despite being produced by Fox. Not Fox News, but still… weird.

𝗠𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗦𝗘𝗘 𝗧𝗘𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗘 by all Americans who aren’t brainwashed by FoxNews. Immediately.

Texas Democrat Jasmine Crockett launched a blistering attack on the impeachment hearings against President Joe Biden on Thursday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZtK995Qboo

Episode 2 of “Accused” on Hulu is a must see, just for how it treats deafness, the hearing-privileged, and the cultural gulf between them. It’s under an hour, so of course it wraps up a bit too neatly, but still, quite effectively. More projects like this, please.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt19397024/?ref_=ttep_ep2

Last night I had this dream that my friend @karoli called me and said ” @taylorlorenz.bsky.social got inside Taylor Swift’s dressing room and got the interview of the century. We’re going to repost it at CrooksandLiars .com. ” When I woke up, I went to find it. Damn dreams!

I’ve had a really crappy day, made a bit brighter by this. At a local traffic light, a homeless vet held up a sign that read:

“If you give me a dollar, I’ll be richer than Donald Trump.”

https://x.com/MarkJacob16/status/1706407738895368505?s=20

This incessant karenizing some do over one thing or another is exactly why so many people don’t like Mastodon or the fediverse. There is no need to preach to, heckle or admonish every one you meet just because they don’t see the world (or a passing issue) exactly as you do, or something rubbed you the wrong way. MAKE AN EFFORT TO BE CIVIL (until that gesture fails). Ask for clarification before thinking the worst and lashing out. We’ll all enjoy the experience a lot more when you do.

nostr:npub1wjhl070708nnmsm62lws0wh4zahzmuyx7skh6gw5w87mzd7tf2dq8e6adp nostr:npub1zeql3qg3sgfmv8wfkl8dncs0gauvrgrvxqtgdj72ztskdg6qcacsfuqpj8 I know several people who fell for the University of Phoenix scam. They blew thru huge numbers for paper worth nothing. Go Brandon.